Hermann Eduardovich Johansen (Герман Эдуардович Иоганзен) (1866–1930) was a biologist and

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

from the Russian Empire. He graduated with a degree in

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

from

Tartu University The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in 1889. He moved to

Tomsk Tomsk ( rus, Томск, p=tomsk, sty, Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. The city is a not ...

in 1893 and began teaching

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and natural history in the Alekseyev

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. From 1899, he taught

and

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Tomsk State University The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU (russian: Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a public research university located in Tom ...

. In 1918, he was appointed full professor in the chair of

. He held this chair until his death, and was succeeded by another

Johansen Johansen is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning ''"son of Johan (given name), Johan"''. It is most common in Denmark and Norway. The Sweden, Swedish variant is Johansson, while the most common spelling in the US is Johanson. There are still ...

Hans Johansen Hans Christian Johansen (2 December 1897–18 December 1973) was a Danish-Russian professor of zoology, first at Tomsk State University, later at the University of Copenhagen. Life Hans Johansen was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russ ...

, to whom he was not related. Hermann Johansen undertook basic faunistic investigations of large areas of

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and was particularly an expert of

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biology. An appreciable part of his bird collections are kept at the Zoological Museum of the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

.Roselaar, C. S. (2003) An inventory of major European bird collections. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club
They were brought there by his successor in the professor chair,

, when the latter was expelled from the

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in 1937. Of his two sons, the elder (Wolfgang Johansen) was killed as a

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soldier in

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, while the younger ( Bodo Johansen) became a

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansen, Hermann Zoologists from the Russian Empire Ornithologists from the Russian Empire University of Tartu alumni Academic staff of Tomsk State University 1930 deaths 1866 births People from the Russian Empire of German descent